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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
- Taylor, Sid
Wisdom Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

2.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
Cheever, John

3.
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
Socrates

4.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Francis of Assisi, St.

5.
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
Edmund Burke

6.
Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.
Bible

7.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

9.
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Proverb, Chinese

10.
When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.
Bhagavad Gita

11.
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Aurelius, Marcus

12.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Carlyle, Thomas

13.
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
Marx, Eleanor

14.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
Thurber, James

15.
Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

16.
The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.
Hoffer, Eric

17.
The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
Butler, Samuel

19.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
Bacon, Francis

21.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Collins, John Churton

22.
Action should culminate in wisdom.
Bhagavad Gita

23.
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
Plato

24.
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
Proverb, Spanish

25.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maeterlinck, Maurice

26.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Larson, Doug

27.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Brecht, Bertolt

28.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

29.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Bacon, Francis

30.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.
The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]
Bible

33.
What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

34.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Blake, William

35.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Franklin, Benjamin

36.
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

38.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Goldsmith, Oliver

39.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.
Marden, Orison Swett

40.
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
Talmud, The

41.
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar

42.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace

43.
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Quarles, Francis

44.
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.
Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.
Buddha

46.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Freud, Sigmund

47.
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
Machiavelli, Niccolo

48.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
Smiles, Samuel

49.
The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.
Handey, Jack

50.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Franklin, Benjamin


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